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| "Pieta" by Vincent Van Gogh |
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Vincent Van Gogh's Unappreciated Journey With Christianity
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CONTINENTAL NEWS
By Mark Ellis
A record 1.2 million visitors attended the giant retrospective of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings in Amsterdam in 1990, which coincided with the anniversary of the Dutch Post-Impresssionist's death. What visitors did not see in that major exhibition were Van Gogh's Christian-themed paintings. Those were left in the basement. Vincent Havlicek, PhD, author of "Van Gogh's Untold Journey" spent 15 years researching and studying more than 900 of van Gogh's letters. His revealing book dispels many of the myths that surround the painter's tumultuous life. [link]
By Mark Ellis
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